{"id":3024,"date":"2017-09-25T16:09:42","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T16:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/edge\/?p=3024"},"modified":"2017-09-25T16:25:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T16:25:13","slug":"cla-week-92517","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/edge\/2017\/09\/25\/cla-week-92517\/","title":{"rendered":"CLA This Week \u2014 9\/25\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"

Events<\/h2>\n

Wednesday,\u00a0Sept. 27<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Doug McAdam Lecture on Trump\u2019s Rise \u2014\u00a0<\/b>Stanford Sociologist Doug McAdam<\/strong> will give a lecture on \u201cPutting Trump in Historical Perspective: Racial Politics and Social Movements in Postwar America Today\u201d based on his 2014 book, “Deeply Divided: Racial Politics and Social Movements in Postwar America,” in MU 213<\/strong>\u00a0at 4 p.m.<\/strong>\u00a0Light refreshments will be served. Sponsored by the School of Public Policy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thursday,\u00a0Sept. 28<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Join the OSU Alumni Association for an interactive discussion on Cuban public health and politics<\/strong> with F. Javier Nieto, Dean<\/strong>, College of Public Health and Human Services and David Bernell<\/strong>, Associate Professor and Director of Masters in Interdisciplinary Studies, from\u00a04 to 5 p.m<\/strong>. at Centro Cultural Cesar Chavez<\/strong>.\u00a0 Registration is encouraged to assist us in planning<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Friday,\u00a0Sept. 29<\/strong><\/h3>\n

OSU Anthropology Lecture Series \u2014 Dr. Bryan Tilt<\/b>, Professor of Anthropology at OSU, will give a lecture titled, “Researching China’s Environmental Crisis…From Norway” from\u00a012 to 12:50 p.m.<\/strong>\u00a0in\u00a0Waldo Hall Room 201A<\/strong>. This event is part of the\u00a0Anthropology Program\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0\u201cTan Sack\u201d Lecture Series.<\/span><\/p>\n

Music \u00e0 la Carte\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/span>Sarah Brown Trio <\/b>with Sarah Brown<\/strong> on clarinet, Ann Grabe<\/strong> on cello, and David Servias<\/strong> on piano,\u00a0will perform at 12 p.m.<\/strong> in the Memorial Union Lounge<\/strong>. Admission is free.<\/p>\n

Upcoming Events<\/h2>\n

Music \u00e0 la Carte\u00a0\u2014 Becky Jeffers <\/span><\/b>and<\/span> Angela Carlson\u00a0<\/span><\/b>will perform at 12 p.m.<\/strong> in the Memorial Union Lounge<\/strong> on Friday, October 6<\/strong>. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

OSU Music Presents<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014The\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>U.S.<\/span><\/strong> Marine Corps Jazz Orchestra \u00a0<\/span><\/b>on Friday, October 6<\/strong> at 7 p.m.<\/strong> in the Memorial Union Lounge.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

News<\/h2>\n

Tickets are on sale now for the 2017-2018\u00a0SAC Presents Series<\/b>, featuring Pink Martini, Ira Glass and more. The first performance takes place on Nov. 2<\/strong> with Voces8, a world-renowned choral\/a cappella group from the UK. The OSU Chamber Choir<\/strong> will join them on a program ranging from Renaissance pieces to contemporary and pop tunes. Tickets are $45 in advance and free to OSU students subject to availability. Discounts on season tickets and Pick4 packages are available. Tickets and information are available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

School of Writing, Literature and Film assistant professor\u00a0Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder<\/strong>\u00a0has recently announced that a journal for which he is a Managing Editor published a new issue. “Present Tense”\u2019s volume 6, issue 2 features articles on a broad range of topics, from regional rhetoric to neoliberalism, and writing program position statements to multimodal teaching. The issue<\/a> also includes a substantial new annotated bibliography on religion, spirituality and rhetoric.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Julia Bradshaw<\/strong> was selected as an artist resident for the Djerassi Resident Artists Program<\/a> for the 2018 season. She also received a Ford Family Foundation Fellowship to support this residency. Nearly 1000 candidates applied or were nominated for 66 residencies.<\/p>\n

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Current Research, Publications and Creative Activity<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

Associate Professor of Creative Writing and MFA Director\u00a0Susan Jackson Rodgers<\/strong>\u00a0recently published “This Must be the Place,” a novel, and is the author of two short collections,\u00a0“The Trouble With You Is” and “Ex-Boyfriend on Aisle 6.” “This Must be the Place” is out from Switchgrass Books.<\/span><\/p>\n

Joshua Reeves<\/b>, Assistant Professor of Media and Rhetoric in New Media Communications and Speech Communication, published\u00a0an article<\/a>\u00a0on suicide prevention networks in “Television and New Media.” Reeves was also\u00a0recently interviewed for an article on surveillance in the\u00a0Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Instructor of Painting\u00a0Stephen Hayes’<\/a>\u00a0<\/b>“In the Hour Before (today),” an exhibit of new paintings, opens at the\u00a0Elizabeth Leach Gallery<\/a>\u00a0in Portland this October. A preview reception will take place on October 4<\/strong>, from\u00a06 \u2013 8 p.m.<\/strong>, and there will be a First Thursday reception on October 5<\/strong> from\u00a06 \u2013 8 p.m.\u00a0<\/strong>In this latest series of paintings, Hayes portrays locations of recent violence in America as seen from the vantage point of Google maps street views.<\/p>\n

Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder<\/strong>, School of Writing, Literature and Film assistant professor, published a chapter entitled “Methodologies: Design Studies and Techne” in the edited collection “Rhetoric and Experience Architecture” (Parlor Press, 2017).<\/p>\n

Gregg Walker<\/b>, Professor of Speech Communication, had a busy summer:<\/p>\n